When Walter Naegle was first approached over a decade ago by producers who wanted to make a feature about his late partner, the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, Naegle needed to be talked into it.
Rustin, who had been the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington — and an openly gay public figure at a time when few were — had already been the subject of the nonfiction “Brother Outsider” (2003).
Naegle remembers saying to the producers, “What do I need you guys for?
When Naegle saw the film for the first time, he felt overwhelming relief.
“Colman’s performance had really captured this person who I cared about,” he said.
Persons:
Walter Naegle, Bayard Rustin, Naegle, Rustin, Washington —, —, ”, “ Rustin, George C, Wolfe, Colman Domingo, Oscar
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Washington